On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:26, C Falconer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:45, Nick Rout wrote:
> > you can use mount -t smbfs for a samba share on a remote computer.
> > Therefore you can also use it in /etc/fstab
>
> Just an observation... if you're mounting shares between linux/unix
> machines, use NFS.  SMB is a pig of a protocol with much overhead.
>
> When I changed from smbfs to nfs for my security camera the speed
> improved by about 25%.  I did some testing, comparing http/ftp/ and cp
> (from a NFS and a SMB share) and from memory smb was a distant last in
> performance with the same file and the same hardware.

I thought smb was the only one that worked on a Windows/ Linux setup?

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